Posted on 02/13/2017 5:57:09 AM PST by DOC44
The list of companies dropping products that carry the Trump name grew this weekend, with two major U.S. retailers announcing that they’re no longer selling Trump Home items online. Reuters reported Saturday that Sears Holdings and subsidiary Kmart will discontinue online sales of 31 items from the Trump Home collection, which includes lines of living room and bedroom furniture, lamps and chandeliers.
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Soon to be going under, Sears & Kmart....
I’m sure this move will turn Sears and Kmart right around /sarc.
A gay progressive shopping at Kmart.
Now THAT’S funny!!!
Sears helped put me through grad school 40 years ago. It is a shame that it will die before I do, but I will never again think of Sears or K-Mart as places to purchase anything.
Yep. We need to punish these stores. Target won’t admit their loss of sales has anything to do with the boycott even though a logical thinker sees the obvious.
I don’t think of them either.
Ehh. I don’t shop there and never will. I do still have my dad’s Craftsman tools when they were made in the USA
It wont be long before all Sears and Kmart stores close down. I suspect Sears will stay alive through their Catalog Sales for awhile.
As John McGlaughlin used to say,”BYE,BYE!”
Two has-been retailers driving away the remainder of their business. Really smart.
If Sears and K-Mart dump Trump-related merchandise and there are no customers there to see it, does it still help their bottom lines?
I still have my dad’s and my craftman’s tools form the 70s. I did like the old big sears catalogues back in the 50’s... we used it for butt wiping in the outhouse....but not the color pages....they just smeared stuff.
I’m honestly not sure how Sears and K-Mart are still in business as it is, there is one of both in my town and walking into them is like walking into a mausoleum, dead quiet, all you can hear is the echo of your footsteps, empty except for a couple bored looking employees. Not to mention the décor, bare grey walls and empty shelves make them look like Soviet era grocery stores.
I often buy car batteries from Sears - a balance between their reasonable prices and their convenient (for me) location. My new battery today is coming from someone else. I’m paying $5 less and driving an extra ten miles round trip to do it. Sears made a mistake by politicizing shopping; they are now dead to me.
They have forgotten one of the OLD rules of business. You are not in business for the Customer to love you or agree with you; you are there to serve the customer’s needs and spend their Dollars at your location. A stupid act or word can wipe out Millions of Dollars of advertising spent, getting the Customer to your door. An MBA does little if you have no Common Sense.
Sears, for the most part, and K-Mart, to a lessor extent seek to appeal to middle America, the majority of whom voted for Trump. Given the effect on JC Penney and Target, I simply do not understand how these weak sisters think this is a helpful strategy.
Personally, I used to own a lot of tools and goods from Sears. In the last few years I only went to Sears occasionally. Now, I have sound reason to actively avoid them. K-Mart is geared toward the EBT crowd.
If you own any stock in either, now is the time to unload it. Both merchandizers just wrote their own obituary which will hasten their demise. Hope it was worth it.
That is TMI but I have to say I know exactly what you are talking about. I grew up in the early fifties and well remember the Sears and Roebuck catalog in the outhouse. Thanks for the memories even as rough as those pages were :-) BTW, what happened to Roebuck ??
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